Woonhuis, Sint Lambertuslaan 30

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Description

Introduction

Four eclectic MANSIONS in a continuous street façade, 1904.

Built at the commission of J.M. Reinders & Cons.

Description

Mansions on L-shaped floor plans, with basement, two storeys, attic storey and wings of two storeys under flat or gabled roofs perpendicular to the rear façade.

The main volumes are covered by combined mansard and gabled roofs. On the roof slopes slate tiles in Maas bond, on the remaining roof surfaces red hollow tiles. Roof dormers with tapering slate roofs, fitted with ridge cresting. Roof dormers with triangular and round-arched pediments. All roof dormers are fitted with claw pieces and/or mouldings.

The corner properties no.30 and no.36 are fitted with recessed round-arched wooden panel doors with fanlights, round-arched wooden window frames and round-arched frames with double balcony doors on the second storey. Both properties are fitted with a large, square bay window with balcony and round-arched wooden balcony windows. All these windows are fitted with a very distinctive glazing bar pattern, which is best preserved in property no.30.

The intermediate properties no.32 and no.34 have rectangular wooden front doors with fanlights, rectangular wooden T-windows and rectangular double wooden cross windows with balcony doors.

Each property is fitted with a large square bay window with balcony. At property no.32 the fine glazing bar pattern in the bay window is partly still present.

The four linked mansions, each with two bays, together form an asymmetrical architectural unit through the varied use of ornaments. Brickwork in cross bond on (imitation) rusticated plinths with basement windows, hardstone plinth mouldings, profile mouldings in light red brick, stuccoed ashlar courses, window and door mouldings, quoins and keystones, diamond bosses, window and door pediments, hardstone sills and lintels.

The corner properties are characterised by façade pilasters, round-arched friezes, spout gables with pinacles, round-arched friezes and multicoloured brick interlace patterns. On the top gable of property no.36 the crowning is missing.

The intermediate properties have a large projecting façade section, in which the bay window is placed. Both are fitted with stuccoed ashlar courses, but property no.32 distinguishes itself from property no.34 through the use of round-arched pediments in the stuccoed door and window mouldings and through a round-arched pediment on the roof dormer. Property no.34 has a rectangular stuccoed door moulding with keystone and on the second storey segmental arched, largely stuccoed window mouldings with diamond bosses and interlace patterns in the infill pieces. The roof dormer has a triangular tympanum.

The exposed gable end of property no.30 is blank and executed in greyish-brown brick with wall anchors, interlace patterns and profiled chimney breast. At the rear façade an extension of two storeys under catslide roof, in the corner a conservatory with renewed patio doors under a catslide roof. The rear façade extension is fitted with segmental arched single and double T-windows, rear door with fanlight, wall anchors, stretcher courses. All window frames are irregularly placed. Rear façade with one window axis, greyish-brown brick in cross bond with hardstone sills.

Property no.32 has an L-shaped, widening extension of two storeys under flat roof. Wall anchors. In the corner of extension and rear façade a wooden veranda with hipped roof and balcony. Renewed balustrade. On the wired glass roof of the veranda transparent insulation has been applied on the inside. Hardstone sills. Window stretcher courses. Whitewashed rear façades. Segmental arched T-windows and doors.

Property no.34 has a recent tilting window in the rear roof slope. In the rear façade of the main volume a segmental arched double wooden T-window with fanlight. Renewed conservatory roof with skylight. The extension of two storeys under gabled roof at rear façade, combined with the extension of property no.36, is whitewashed and has in the rear façade a renewed, segmental arched wooden door with fanlight topped by a segmental arched wooden T-window with fanlight. Hardstone window sills. Wall anchors. In the side façade of the extension two segmental arched, double wooden T-windows, a segmental arched wooden T-window. Conservatory with leaded glass fanlights, below which centrally placed, rectangular double wooden patio doors with horizontally glazed side lights.

Property no.36 with L-shaped, widening and with no.34 shared extension on the rear façade, under gently sloping, zinc-covered gabled roof, with tall rising chimney. Whitewashed rear façades. Rear façade veranda with recent skylight in a zinc catslide roof.

Only at property no.34 the original ornamental wrought iron garden gate is missing. The mutual garden divisions are everywhere still present.

All four bay windows have retained their original, ornamental wrought iron balustrades. The rear gardens are surrounded by brick walls with buttresses, resting on marl foundations.

The INTERIOR of property no.30 is in very good condition and the layout is unchanged. This includes inter alia the stucco mouldings, stucco rosettes, tile floors in hallway and conservatory; sliding doors between front room, room and conservatory; marble chimney mouldings, original plank floors, panel doors in mouldings, staircase, hallway arch with stucco consoles.

The interior of property no.32 is essentially unchanged in layout. This includes inter alia the intermediate sliding doors, panel doors, stucco ornaments, ceiling mouldings, the pine floors, the staircase and the four equally distributed over the storeys black marble chimney pieces.

The interior of property no.34 has a largely unchanged layout. Various rooms are fitted with stucco rosettes and stucco mouldings. Panel doors with mouldings. Rectangular, double wooden sliding doors with glass panels between living room and conservatory. On the attic storey mansard rooms and loft. Centrally placed staircase with wooden balustrade. All windows fitted with inner windows. Recent leaded glass fanlights in bay window, conservatory and door fanlight. Tile floors in conservatory and hallway. Hallway arch, hallway rosettes.

In the completely unchanged interior of property no.36 inter alia are important: the chimney pieces present in virtually every room, the sliding panel doors between living room and salon, the sliding panel doors with glass between living room and veranda, the stucco rosettes and ceiling mouldings, the tile floors in hallway and veranda, the wooden floors of American pine, staircase with balustrade, hallway arch with stuccoed consoles, original tile wainscoting in kitchen and scullery, floor tiles scullery.

All four properties have a basement storey with brick vaults resting on steel I-beams and marl walls.

Valuation

The four linked mansions represent a particular expression of a socio-economic development: the housing of the well-to-do bourgeoisie outside the old city centre. The architectural-historical values are determined by the eclectic building style, the high aesthetic quality, the use of materials, the ornaments and the particular coherence between exterior and interior components.

The mansions are important components of the Maastricht Villapark, are through their location connected with the development of the city and have significance for the appearance of the neighbourhood.

Further there is question of architectural intactness, of importance in relation to the structural respectively visual intactness of the urban environment and of historical/spatial relationship with the laying out of the villapark respectively the then municipal boundary between Maastricht and St.Pieter. Moreover the properties may be considered architecturally rather rare.